CSSEA’s global costings on collective agreement settlements are based on the data provided by members in submitting their Compensation and Employee Turnover Reports. Our legislated mandate is to ensure that government knows how much money is required to fund the collective agreement settlements and other funding commitments made at the bargaining table. The data also informs PSEC and the various funding ministries/entities so that they can plan for the necessary allocations to many service contracts within their budgets.
Social services in British Columbia are delivered primarily by not-for-profit agencies under service agreements with several provincial ministries and authorities, the largest funder being Community Living British Columbia. Hundreds of these agencies operate in union and/or non-union environments; however, since March 2003, non-union agencies are not eligible for membership in CSSEA.
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The Compensation and Employee Turnover Report (CETR) is an annual report conducted by CSSEA for the social services sector of British Columbia. The purpose of the report is collect funding, compensation, workforce demographics and employee turnover information. This information is the basis for total compensation base reported to PSEC, costing information for collective bargaining, statistics, reports and CSSEA publications.
The Social Services Workforce Information System (WFIS) is an online repository and reporting tool for compensation and labour market information for the social services sector of British Columbia.